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MPECIFIGAEIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,691, dated July 16, 1901. Application filed January 24,1901- Serial No. 44,555. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY G. ROTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wall Display-Fixtures and Curtains; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention relates towall display devices, and is in the nature of a display-fixture having a plurality of wall-curtains.

The object of my said invention is to provide certain improvements in this class of display devices whereby a large variety of designs may be produced with the same parts, but in different arrangement.

To the above end the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

In the drawings like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation,illustrating my invention applied in working position, different adjustments of the plate being illustrated by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the same, some parts being broken away. Fig. 4 shows the parts of the fixture disconnected and laid together as for packing or shipping. Fig. 5 is a View in side elevation corresponding to Fig. 1, but showing a larger number of curtains. Fig. 6 is a front elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 5, some parts being broken away. Fig. 7 is a detail in vertical section on the line a m of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a detail view showing a portion of one of the roll-holding troughs and a portion of one of the rolls of curtain held thereby. Fig. 9 is a view in diagram, showing on a reduced scale the lower ends of the several curtains separated and laid side byside; and Figs. 10 to 14, inclusive, are views illustrating different designs which may be produced by various arrangements of the interchangeable curtains.

The numeral 1 indicates a box-like case-.t

section, which, as shown, has an open top and vertically-projectin g ears 2, through which nails or similar devices a are driven to secure the same to the wall. The back of this box is also left open for a purpose which will hereinafter appear. A plate 3 is adj ustably secured to the outer face of the box by means of laterally-offset fingers at, projected from the lower edge thereof and engageable with any of the series of perforations 5, cut in the front wall of said box 1, as shown in Figs. 1 and 8. meet the upper edge of the plate 3 to a portion of the box 1, as shown, directly to the ears 2. This arrangement permits the plate to be adjusted into any one of the positions indicated in Fig. 1 simply by positioning the fingers 4 in the proper perforations 5. To secure these adjustments, the connections 6 need not be varied in length, although of course other adjustments could be obtained by varying the length of the said connections 6. When it is desired to pack the device for storage or shipment, the plate 3 may of course be readily detached from the box 1 and may then be packed against the same, as shown in Fig. 4, or Many other suitable way.

In Figs. 5 and 6 the box 1 is shown as provided with five interchangeable curtains, while in Fig. lbut two of such curtains are shown. The remainderof my description will be directed chiefly to Figs. 5 to 14., inclusive.

Suitably secured within the box 1 and extending one over the other, preferably from end to end thereof, are a series of trough-like roll-receptacles 7, preferably attached at their ends to the ends or sides of said box. The numeral 8 indicates curtains which, as shown, are rolled at their upper ends on filling rollers or cores 9, placed one in each of the roll holders or troughs 7. At its central portion each trough 7 is provided with projections 7, to which spring-fingers 10 are secured, as best shown in Fig. 7 and also in Fig. 5. These spring-fingers 10 press the upper portions of the rolled curtains and serve to frictionally hold the curtains from unrolling under the action of gravity. The said fingers 10 may be easily raised to permit the rolled curtains to be placed within the holding-troughs 7.

The several curtains will preferably be of different color and their lower edges variously out, so that they will cooperate to pro Cords or flexible connections 6 conduce different designs. In the drawings different surface shadings have been employed to indicate different colors. In Fig. 9 the lower ends of the curtains are shown, and for my further illustrations, given in Figs. 10 to 14, inclusive, We must assume that these same curtains, cut at their lower ends, as indicated in said Fig. 9, have been employed throughout. Any particular curtain in the several designs is always shaded in the same manner. To produce the different designs indicated in Figs. 10 to 14, inclusive, requires the curtains to be interchangeably usable, so as to bring the curtain Whose lower edge hangs the lowest at the back of the series and those which hang successively higher at their lower edges successively one in front of the other. This of course maybe easily done with the arrangement above described. It is also evident that other roll-holders may be employed to permit the rolls to be interchangeably used. It will also be understood that the lower ends of the curtains may be cut in various other Ways and that various other designs may be produced.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. A wall display device comprising a plurality of interchangeably-supported curtains or sheets provided with overlapping ends which are variously cut and cooperate to produce different borders or designs, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a box or case securable to the wall and provided with a plurality of roll-holders, of a plurality of rolled curtains loosely mounted in said roll-holders and provided with lower end edges that 00- operate to form different borders or designs, the said curtains beinginterchangeable, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a box or case, securable to the wall and provided with a plurality of trough-like roll seats or holders havingroll-engaging springs, of a plurality of rolled curtains interchangeably mounted in said trough-like holders, the lower edges of which curtains are so cut that they cooperate to form different borders or designs, substantially as described.

4. A display device, comprising a basepiece securable to the wall, a plate supported from said base-piece at its lower edge, with freedom for pivotal and vertical adjustments thereon, and a connection supporting the upper free edge of said plate from said basepiece, substantially as described.

5. The combination with a box-section 1 having the vertical series of perforations 5, of the plate 3 provided with fingers 4 for coop eration with said perforations 5, and the flexible connection (isupporting the free upper edge of said plate from said box 1, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY G. ROTH.

Witnesses:

MABEL M. MOGRORY, FRANK D. MERCHANT. 

